Lovely reblooms, and I love that luna moth photo!

It is crazy. We are having rain, but it has warmed up a bit to low nineties. And I had 13 plants blooming today. I Moved Roman Cohort yesterday, and Barney the day before. I have got to get some of the rearranging done. Kate, you said you were doing some rearranging too. I have three soaking, a half dozen in pots, and more to come. I am moving late openers to another are, eliminating doubles, and just tossing a few that I am tired of or that never measured up, even if I love the blooms. Sometimes, plants are happier elsewhere.

kay

Kay, I am trying to rearrange. The rain keeps coming at inopportune times for me! The weeds have taken over the area where I had planned to "rearrange" so much that I am renting a brush trimmer this weekend to clear it out again! How sad is that!!!! Unfortunately some unwanted trees have also come up in that area-hence the brush trimmer. I have one bed ready for planting and have ten pots of lilies ready to fill it. I also have an order coming next week so am so far behind. Could we just get a bus tour of forum members to go to each of our gardens for a day of work? :) Smiles...

Kate

Such nice rebloom! Like the critters, never seem them up north.

Sherry

Some of the late rebloom flowers are the nicest of the year. Had never seen a pic of Pistachio Eyes. That is a Stamile that seems to have been lost. Any reason you might think of? A few still seem to be down in the foliage, but just very nice overall.

Lovely group! Ledgewood's Jumpstart and Pistachio Eyes are my favorites. Beautiful nature photos as well! My lantana has also really done well this year. I love that it attracts so many butterflies.

Lori

Debra, I love the luna moths as well. This one was fully 6 inches across. And those antennae look like palm fronds! And, Sherry, I think these moths are southeast creatures-I'll have to check that. Lori, my lantana usually does well but not the monster it has become this year. Mantis, I found an earlier photo of Pistachio Eyes that shows more of the green eyes. I don't know why it is an unknown. I grow many Stamiles because they perform well for me and of those, Down Home, Pistachio Eyes and Song Writer look great. But above these, Silent Musings is a fabulous huge pink (I know some are not pink fans so don't read any more!) that has always amazed me that it is not in more gardens. I will post it as well although it has been hard to capture its "presence" in the garden.

Kate, I know what you mean! Sit still a little while and your yard will become a forest in our climates. All this rain has kept me from weeding so many times. The area I am "rearranging" is also weed ridden. It is my original iris bed. I indeed to have mostly daylilies there, and it adjoins a current daylily bed, so it will be a pretty large bed. I am trying a few cone flowers and so forth in the area. I did clear out about half the iris yesterday, so that is progress.

kay

Kate, Wow, you sure have great rebloom! I'm glad you can enjoy and post so we can too!

Brad

Pistachio Eyes is lovely! How unusual that the birds would be nesting this late - well, it would be up here in MI. And I love the luna moth. I have only seen a few of them in my life.

Alex

Lovely photos and I love the nature shots. We couldn't wait for rebloom to stop in the seedling bed to move plants, so we are about half done moving the selects. We want to finish before September. It's gotten dry here, though, and the rebloom has tapered off.

Nancy

Thanks all! I meant to mention when Mantis indicated some looked to be still blooming down in the foliage that, except for the unregistered lily, all have rebloomed much taller than the original blooming season. Just the angle of my photos, I suppose, that makes them look shorter. Alex, I was shocked to see this nest of birds two weeks ago. Very late for them here. I won't even go look at them as cats and snakes have a habit of taking care of them sometimes and I don't want to know it if they do. I only posted it as things are really wacky this summer and obviously the birds' inner clocks have also become confused. And, Nancy, if the rain does not slow down here, I may be looking at blooms in November!

Kate